Am Freitag, 17. Dezember 2010 schrieb todd rme: > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM, todd rme <[email protected]> wrote: > > Packman provides allegro ver 4.2, and many packages (particularly many > > games) depend on this version specifically. However, the openSUSE > > 11.3 games repository uses and is built against liballeg4_4 ver 4.4.1, > > which obsoletes any older allegro. > > > > Since the openSUSE version obsoletes the packman version, and openSUSE > > packages won't install with the packman allegro and packman packages > > won't install with the openSUSE liballeg4_4, this means that in many > > cases you have to pick between having openSUSE-provided games and > > packman-provided games. Since there are many games that are only > > present in one of the two repositories and depend on some part of > > allegro, this means that no matter what you do there are many games > > you cannot install. > > > > I am not sure what the proper solution is, if there even is one, but > > it is an issue for users. > > > > -Todd > > Any progress on this? Having a hard incompatibility between the > packman versions of libraries and the official openSUSE versions of > libraries seems to be a pretty serious issue to me. it is not a hard incompatibility :)
openSUSE 11.3 games repository is NOT a official repository. > > I am not sure how your buildservice is set up, but at least in the > normal one it is possible to simply mirror the versions of packages > from the official repos. For allegro this would make your games > automatically compatible with the openSUSE games repo. But I am not > sure this is possible with a third-party buildservice. At the very > least copying their version seems like a good idea. Feel free to patch the games against the new allegro libs, any help is welcome. A lot of those linked projects are not working properly with our buildservice (ghc is a good example...) > > -Todd > > _______________________________________________ > Packman mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman -- have fun Toni _______________________________________________ Packman mailing list [email protected] http://lists.links2linux.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/packman
